David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

